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Issue 46 | December 2000
Volume 10 | Number 5 | Issue 46 | December 2000 Marion McLeod: Charlotte Randall, The Curative Editorial Correspondence Rosemary McLeod: Helen Smyth, Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Joan Rosier-Jones: Barbara Else (ed), Grand…
Letters – Issue 46
Reviewing the reviewer I am writing in response to the review of my book The Ambush, which appeared in the August issue of your magazine. Laurence Jenkins accuses me of “the clumsy telling of a not-very-interesting story”. Let’s take a…
Hanging matter, Marion McLeod
The Curative Charlotte Randall Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0140297537 This is an amazing and amazingly good novel. The second novel is supposed to be the hardest but any reader coming to this one “blind” would judge it to be the work…
Tagged with: Charlotte Randall, December 2000, Issue 46, Marion McLeod, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Roma Potiki
Doña Musica for Julia Varley The butterflies that have come out of the garden of the kaosmos flutter behind each of the ears of Doña Musica. Doña Musica is a character and she is not. She is herself and…
Rough justice, Malcolm MacLean
Mene Confessions: Tall Tales from Netball’s Inner Circle Bernice Mene (and Geoff Young) Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 1869588282 Picture the scene: an exceptionally glum group of public servants in Wellington one Monday morning in October 1999. The reason…
Tagged with: Bernice Mene, December 2000, Geoff Young, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 46, Malcolm MacLean
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Language and loss, John Dickson
laminations Murray Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402227 In the poem “Can that Mango” from Murray Edmond’s latest book, the following lines are spoken (or so a note informs us) by one of two angels who are discussing a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, December 2000, Issue 46, John Dickson, Murray Edmond
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
I remember, I remember, Jane Bowron
The High Jump: A New Zealand Childhood Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864733372 Anyone who grew up in New Zealand in the 1960s and ’70s can bask in the nostalgia of Elizabeth Knox’s trilogy The High Jump…
Tagged with: December 2000, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 46, Jane Bowron, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“’Tis desperate, so ‘tis” Tony Simpson
Burnt Barley Peta Mathias Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414276 Irish at Heart Marie Gray HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1865903449 It’s bound to continue to be one of the curiosities of this century – as it was of the last – that however…
Tagged with: December 2000, HarperCollins, Issue 46, Marie Gray, Peta Mathias, Tony Simpson, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
“A genius for upholstery”, Kim Hill
Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady: such an adolescent cliché, you could say, not to mention a literary one. Spirited young thing falls in thrall to a superficially sophisticated older man, and ruins her life. The Victorians were apparently…
Overlapping associations, Tom Larkin
Japan and New Zealand, 150 Years ed Roger Peren New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Massey University, in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, [not for sale], ISBN 0958350574 In 1878, Asajiro Noda, the eight-year-old son…
Tagged with: December 2000, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 46, New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Roger Peren, Tom Larkin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War